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Winner of the 2026 Institute for Transport Studies Road Safety Prize announced
We're delighted to celebrate Adelia Kusuma Ayu, whose outstanding Road Safety coursework was awarded the highest mark in the class, earning her the ITS Road Safety Prize.
New plant species honours Leeds Professor
A ‘remarkably strange-looking' plant has been named after Professor Jon Lovett, who discovered it in the Tanzania rainforests.
Researchers awarded £1m to pilot a sustainable alternative to shrimp farming in Mexico
We are delighted to announce that the research project AquaRoots has been awarded funding through the Global Centre on Biodiversity for Climate (GCBC) Research Grant Competition 3 (RGC3).
Understanding Earth’s past temperatures
The Earth’s temperature has been much cooler in the past than previously thought, meaning it could be moving towards the warmest it’s ever been.
Planning for climate change in the Sulawesi mountains
A new study by Naufal, a PhD student in the School of Geography from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, sheds light on why some smallholder farming communities adopt practices that damage the land.